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color=#000080 size=2>This was a huge victory and has been all over the Swedish
mainstream news all day. We got quotes into 38 different
newspapers.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080 size=2>Rick</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
pp.international.general-bounces@lists.pirateweb.net
[mailto:pp.international.general-bounces@lists.pirateweb.net] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Carlos Ayala<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 29, 2008 21:20<BR><B>To:</B>
pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net;
partidopirata@partidopirata.es<BR><B>Subject:</B> [pp.int.general] Promusicae
vs Telefonica: privacy is notcompromised, but neither
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<DIV>Hello:<BR><BR>Rick told me on last saturday that the EU Justice Court was
about to release a judgment on a privacy vs IP Spanish case. In that case,
Promusicae -an Spanish Rights Management Organisation (from here, RMO)-
requested Telefonica -an ISP- through Spanish civil courts of justice to
provide personal data from their customers in order to allow Promusicae to
investigate whether Spanish IP Law had been violated. <A
href="http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=rechercher&numaff=C-275/06"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Here is the judgment's full version in
English</SPAN></A>.<BR><BR>In the judgment, EU Justice Court states that
despite european directives on personal data protection, IP and others do not
forbid State members to force ISPs to provide RMOs with their customer's
personal data, neither force State members to force ISPs; then, if Spanish
Information Society and Personal Data laws don't force ISPs to provide RMOs
with their customer's personal data, it won't happen ... yet. But, what about
the future? The EUJC judgment states:<BR><BR>"<SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">the answer to the national court’s question must be
that Directives 2000/31, 2001/29, 2004/48 and 2002/58 do not require the
Member States to lay down, in a situation such as that in the main
proceedings, an obligation to communicate personal data in order to ensure
effective protection of copyright in the context of civil proceedings.
However, <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Community law requires</SPAN> <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">that, when transposing those directives, the Member
States take care to rely on an interpretation of them</SPAN> <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">which allows a fair balance to be struck between the
various fundamental rights</SPAN> protected by the Community legal order.
Further, when implementing the measures transposing those directives, <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">the authorities and courts of the Member States must
not only interpret their national law in a manner consistent with those
directives but also make sure that they do not rely on an interpretation of
them which would be in conflict with those fundamental rights or with the
other general principles of Community law</SPAN>, such as the principle of
proportionality</SPAN>"<BR><BR>So though privacy is not compromised in Spain
-yet-, it's neither secured, as it will depend on each Member state -Spain,
Sweden, Poland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, etc- MPs'
<SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">mood</SPAN> -i.e. ability to stand against
RMOs pressure- and, finally, each Member state's Constitution. We should go
and check our national constitutions to be sure that they don't allow privacy
to be eroded in the name of IP, otherwise sooner or later our national MPs
-Piratpartiet will try to attack privacy for the good of RMOs and
entertainment industry; here in Spain we'll try to rely on the <A
href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1978/Part_I#Division_1._Fundamental_Rights_and_Public_Freedoms"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">18th article of Spanish Constitution</SPAN></A> -and
also on Constitutional Court's case law- to be sure that we remain protected
against this kind of attacks against privacy ...<BR><BR>... though Spanish
Constitution also theoretically protects freedom of speech, and look what our
MPs have done to erode it through LISI law.
Regards<BR><BR><BR>
Carlos
Ayala<BR>
(Aiarakoa)<BR><BR>
Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<BR></DIV></DIV><BR>
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